Trump gets a powerful lesson in role of judiciary
By Robert Barnes February 9 at 9:56 PM
President Trump, meet the judicial branch.
You like fast? It prefers to take its time. You were elected to disrupt, but it insists on order.
Most important, you have pledged to move single-handedly to protect the country and change its immigration priorities. The federal judiciary in the weeks-that-feel-like-months of the Trump presidency has pushed back in a series of decisions that make clear it has a role to play.
Only history can know whether the unanimous decision by a panel of three very different federal judges will ultimately be considered a case of judicial overreach, a self-imposed mistake caused by the administration’s lack of precision, or something more significant. But for now it served as a powerful reminder that judges demand their designated part, even if in most cases it is to defer to the president on matters of national security.
The judges fairly bristled at the government’s contention that courts had no business weighing Trump’s executive order temporarily banning refugees and those from seven majority-Muslim countries.
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